It's a good thing that my physiology con is 13 months away

[cornerofmadness]

or maybe it's a bad one because I'll have a year to plot out what I'm going to do to the McGraw-Hill reps. Today's challenge: my anatomy/physiology final disappeared to my students. I can see it. It SHOULD be there. I asked my rep about it. Their response. oops, sorry. Um...okay? HELP ME? I guess if it's still missing tomorrow I'll contact customer service.

So apparently my entirely plague blog is just going to be me bitching about online teaching.

But no, starting tomorrow I'll be posting about camp nano. Anyone else going to try to do a writing challenge. I'm already over about half the authors out there. Of course you have the group who are ooo time to write. Look at what XYZ did during their quarantine life? Imagine what you can do. And then the other half snarling at the first half saying something is wrong because they're doing something other than sitting and worrying.

My thoughts are you do you. If you're too anxious to write, that's fine but don't jump into MY thread to fucking yell at me because I CAN write. And those who can write, give the other people their space to deal with this in their own way. Don't jump into their threads and shame them for not writing. There is no ONE right way.

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[bladespark]

I am sooooooooooooo not committing to writing right now! I can write two ways. One is the "put in the work, get out the words" way, and I am 100% without the spoons to do it at the moment. No way. The other is "the muse gets a mad urge and words happen to me nearly against my will" way. I'm staying active in writing communities and poking at ideas mentally and re-reading bits of story and idea notes and things, hoping this will strike, but I can't make it happen.

If it does, though, I will write without any shame whatsoever. Creating is good! I am *so* enjoying some of the things creative people stuck and home are putting out with their free time right now, even if I myself am not currently among their numbers, and I would not dream of shaming those folks! Nor of shaming those like me who just can't at the moment.

Compassion all around is the order of the day, I feel.

[alexseanchai]

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[cornerofmadness]

Compassion, that's a very good way to put it. And I hear you. Honestly one of the reason I've been doing SO MUCH fanfic lately is I need to create but I haven't had the spoons to do original fiction. World building is hard.

Once I get past this week most of the hard part of work will be over and I'll have time to do original fiction but if half my word count is fanfic this camp I'm good with that

[alexseanchai]

I'm not going to do Camp NaNo per se, but that is not a corona-related decision. what I told the local-region NaNo Discord is, I have learned my lesson about "I am going to use $Event to finish my novel" and I am not doing that anymore. because "I will finish this for NaNoWriMo", "I will finish this in time to post the first chapter on my birthday", and "I will finish this for letsgetshitdone March round" have each added several weeks to actually finishing the thing and I can so take a hint!

[cornerofmadness]

Sounds reasonable to me. We all work different. Sometimes it's rough really working out what's best for you. Good luck